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Stories from archives across Ireland: collections, projects, and the people who look after them.

  • Collections

    Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists Archive Collection

    The archival collection was donated in October 2023 to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)’s Heritage Collections by two great-grandsons of Henry Conyngham, Michael and Christopher Shiell, both of whom worked in the company as joint managing directors…

  • Collections

    After the Fire – the Jagger Library Recovery, Cape Town

    On Sunday 18th of April 2021, a fire that started on Table Mountain spread to the Jagger Library Reading Room — home to the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) special collections. As an alumna of UCT (based in London at…